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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 682178" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>I do not know if I agree fully. I think caring people have a hard time witnessing our pain because it reminds them of their own vulnerability...you know the saying...if not for the grace of G-d go I. They want to ferret out our weakness, the cause so as to reassure themselves that they could not be vulnerable or afflicted.</p><p></p><p>So to that extent, I agree.</p><p></p><p>But there are people I have learned who like to see us suffering. Whether it is to believe we are dragged down to their level (either failed or bitterness, or in Trump's words--or whatever).</p><p></p><p>I read your signature just now and saw how you referred to your son, I think you said "assimilated into a criminal mentality."</p><p></p><p>I told my son to leave here when he was 23. He is now 27 (and back here, temporarily at my home.) We believed that on his own he would buckle up. Instead he got on SSI for mental illness and eventually became homeless. I resisted for the longest time that he was mentally ill. And I still do sometimes.</p><p></p><p>While he was away from me, my son "was assimilated into" a homeless mentality.</p><p></p><p>My son did not buckle up away from me. The hope would be he would work, go to school, become self-reliant in the way that I had. He became self-reliant, yes, but of the homeless variety.</p><p></p><p>Lying. Manipulating. Street smart.</p><p></p><p>My son was the sweetest boy. The sweetest person.</p><p></p><p>He is coming back, but oh how he had to suffer and be dragged down, in order to come back to where he had started. I wonder if it was my fault. That if I had thought differently from the beginning, we would have been spared this, he and I.</p><p></p><p>You know, my son is not angry at me. He does not blame me. He sees this as his path.</p><p></p><p>COPA</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 682178, member: 18958"] I do not know if I agree fully. I think caring people have a hard time witnessing our pain because it reminds them of their own vulnerability...you know the saying...if not for the grace of G-d go I. They want to ferret out our weakness, the cause so as to reassure themselves that they could not be vulnerable or afflicted. So to that extent, I agree. But there are people I have learned who like to see us suffering. Whether it is to believe we are dragged down to their level (either failed or bitterness, or in Trump's words--or whatever). I read your signature just now and saw how you referred to your son, I think you said "assimilated into a criminal mentality." I told my son to leave here when he was 23. He is now 27 (and back here, temporarily at my home.) We believed that on his own he would buckle up. Instead he got on SSI for mental illness and eventually became homeless. I resisted for the longest time that he was mentally ill. And I still do sometimes. While he was away from me, my son "was assimilated into" a homeless mentality. My son did not buckle up away from me. The hope would be he would work, go to school, become self-reliant in the way that I had. He became self-reliant, yes, but of the homeless variety. Lying. Manipulating. Street smart. My son was the sweetest boy. The sweetest person. He is coming back, but oh how he had to suffer and be dragged down, in order to come back to where he had started. I wonder if it was my fault. That if I had thought differently from the beginning, we would have been spared this, he and I. You know, my son is not angry at me. He does not blame me. He sees this as his path. COPA [/QUOTE]
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